Record Details
Field | Value |
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Title | page 7 |
Relation | Power and the Pacific Northwest |
Date | 2005-04-20 to 2005-05-09 |
Rights | This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested. |
Type | page |
Format | Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 232.623 kb 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - greyscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit tiffs and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit grayscale and 48>24 RGB color tiffs edited in Photoshop CS 8.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted, grayscale bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created. |
Description | had sold power to the municipality. Consolidation beyond municipal boundaries depended on development of long-distance transmission facilities to feed local distribution grids. Such transmission grids were developed, and one Southwestern corporation, formed by the merger of 520 utilities, grew to serve 2 million people in an area of 39,000 square miles almost entirely within the State of California. A statewide transmission network was envisioned for Pennsylvania in 1923, when Governor... |
Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1932 |